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Archive for the ‘Data Protection’ Category

Why your boss should never be your Facebook friend: “How one Sydney worker’s claim of illness was undone by his Facebook update”

(Via Latest news, sport, business, comment and reviews from the Guardian | guardian.co.uk.)

Official who lost secret al-Qaeda report pleads guilty: “

‘My bad’, says forgetful vomiter

The senior civil servant who left government documents detailing intelligence on al-Qaeda on a commuter train in June has pleaded guilty to a breach of the Official Secrets Act.…

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(Via The Register - Public Sector.)

German privacy watchdogs agree social networking ground rules: “

Keep users informed about data use

Social networking sites are not permitted to store information about people’s use of the sites beyond the duration of a particular session, according to a panel of Germany’s data protection officials.…

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(Via The Register - Public Sector.)

Privacy watchdog calls Home Office plans threat to British way of life: “The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has said that a single database of phone and internet usage records would undermine the ‘British way of life’. The privacy watchdog has said that it will scrutinise Government plans for storing that information.”

(Via OUT-LAW News.)

Germans seduce Jacqui over remote hacking of disks: “

Trojanised Home Sec comes home to infect Parliament

Is the UK Government about to turn world class hacker? It’s going to have to if the Germans succeed in getting their domestic programme of planting Trojans onto suspects computers adopted by the EU.…

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(Via The Register - Public Sector.)

German privacy watchdogs agree social networking ground rules: “Social networking sites are not permitted to store information about people’s use of the sites beyond the duration of a particular session in Germany, according to a panel of all that country’s data protection officials.”

(Via OUT-LAW News.)

VSocial networking sites told to warn users of weak privacy controls: “(AFP)
Social networking websites were urged to warn users about the low level of protection given to their profiles at a Council of Europe-organised conference on the issue. The European Union Data Protection Authority (Cnil) said websites like Facebook should inform users that their profiles currently receive only ‘weak’ protection. It added that website users, especially minors, should be told about the risks they face by going online and given clear instructions on how to change their data protection settings. The request came at the end of a two-day conference in the French city of Strasbourg during which 70 countries also stressed the need for a universal standard on privacy and personal data protection.”

(Via QuickLinks Update.)

Man who killed wife over Facebook posting jailed for life: “Wayne Forrester attacked his wife with kitchen knife and meat cleaver after she changed her Facebook profile to ’single’”

(Via Latest news, sport, business, comment and reviews from the Guardian | guardian.co.uk.)

Security services want personal data from sites like Facebook: “Ministers say terrorists and other criminals are using free websites as a way of concealing their communications”

(Via Latest news, sport, business, comment and reviews from the Guardian | guardian.co.uk.)

Concern over giant database idea: “The government’s terror watchdog is concerned at proposals for a giant database of all UK phone calls and web use.”

(Via BBC News.)